Splunk First Annual Worldwide Users' Conference Highlights Customer Success

Presentations by Prominent Customers Including Salesforce.com, VMware, Cisco, Autodesk, Sandia Labs and Others

SAN FRANCISCO - Aug. 10, 2010 - Splunk today announced its inaugural Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference is under-way and runs through Aug. 11 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference has brought together Splunk users, partners and developers from sixteen countries to share real-world best practices and ideas for better managing, securing and auditing IT environments.

Splunk president and CEO Godfrey Sullivan and other senior executives will present during the keynote sessions on Splunk's strategy, plans and roadmap. The keynotes will highlight how customers are moving beyond solving point problems using Splunk for "IT Search" to using Splunk enterprise-wide and achieving new levels of operational visibility. With the help of Splunk, these organizations are moving IT from support and reactive roles to become agile and more strategic. The keynote sessions will also discuss how Splunk is enabling customers to leverage the shift to cloud computing and company investment of the growing Splunk Community.

Additionally, Splunk customers will present how they're using Splunk to unlock the value hidden in their IT data. These masters of Splunk come from organizations including Salesforce.com, VMware Autodesk, Heroku and Cisco and will share their best practices for IT management, security, compliance and operational visibility. Featured customer presentations include:

• "Splunk for a SaaSy Enterprise," or how Splunk helps Salesforce.com monitor and manage its SaaS/cloud-delivered infrastructure - Salesforce.com
• "Using Splunk to Provide Business Value Outside of IT," or how Splunk helps make IT data relevant for non-technical business users - Autodesk
• "Heroku and Splunk," or how they've deployed Splunk to manage and monitor their "always on" cloud platform infrastructure - Heroku
• "Managing an Enterprise Deployment: Lessons Learned and Best Practices," or how Splunk manages VMware's virtual infrastructure - VMware
• "Cisco's CSIRT Team Shows Off the Splunk for Cisco App," or how Cisco uses Splunk worldwide for cyber security - Cisco

The Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference features seven tracks where attendees can focus on getting the most out of their deployment of Splunk:

• Administering and Deploying Splunk
• Splunk In-depth
• Operational Insights
• Customer Success
• Solution Areas
• Developing with-and-on Splunk
• IT Trends-What's Hot

The official hashtag of the Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference is #splunkconf.

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About Splunk

Splunk^® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 3,300 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cybersecurity risk. To learn more, please visit www.splunk.com/company.

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